Just for the record, Inno3D was established in 1998 in Hong Kong and focus primarily on the OEM market. This approach has made them one of the fastest growing technology companies in Asia. This is most likely why the card on review here is not jazzed up in any way. The Inno3D 7800 GT is really an OEM part jazzed up for the retail sector, which is no bad thing.

As boxes go this one is actually quite decent with the video card visibly on display. There are some nice extras in the box too.

Instead of coming bundled with a breakout cable, this card comes with a small breakout box. This is much more convenient to use and is a really great addition. It comes with all the standard inputs and outputs you would expect to find, with an S-video in/out, components in/out and is 2 metres in length.  Other things included are a manual, driver CD, Colin McRae Rally, 4 S-video cable, molex to PCI-e power adaptor, s-video to component lead, and two DVI to VGA adaptors.

Look up and you will see that Inno3D hasn’t even etched there own graphic for the cooler as many others do. This is identical to the Nvidia reference design in every way, which bizarrely is kind of refreshing.

Remove the Inno3D sticker and you’ll soon realize this is as reference as reference gets. There are quite a few people who sought reference cards for there kitsch value, so if you’re one of them you could save yourself some effort and buy this instead.

The 7800 GT is quite a bit shorter than a GTX and would be my choice for a Shuttle style PC. ATI cards are still shorter though but pretty much always run hot.

Removing the cooler we see eight DDR SG RAM modules and the core itself. The memory on this card was Infineon 2.0ns which is rated to run at 1000 MHz, so don’t expect the memory to go much further than its default spec. I will add though, that all 7800 GT’s including the factory overclocked cards from Gainward, XFX, Leadtek and BFG all sport the same memory chips.

The reference cooler is actually quite good. It is a hybrid copper/aluminium design with cooling for the memory, too.

The fan used is an ADDA AD4512HB-E01. The “H” in the code indicates this is a high speed fan though the 7800 series has a fan controller so it will never speed up past 50% - In fact, 43% to be precise.

Here you can see the aluminium fins on the cooler. GPU cooling has come quite far compared to the old days and this cooler is one of the best reference coolers out there.